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Overview
The Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in lowand middleincome countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain highquality health systems.
CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of lifesaving and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades CHAI has expanded its focus. Today along with HIV we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID19 malaria tuberculosis and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer diabetes hypertension and other noncommunicable diseases and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines reduce maternal and child mortality combat chronic malnutrition and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health digital health and health financing. With each new and innovative program our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale ensuring that governments lead the solutions that programs are designed to scale nationally and learnings are shared globally.
At CHAI our people are our greatest asset and none of this work would be possible without their talent time dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work:
Team Overview:
CHAIs Global Markets Team (GMT) is responsible for envisioning executing and monitoring market shaping interventions aimed at improving the efficiency of health commodity markets for low and middleincome countries. These interventions range from traditional policyled and grantfinanced initiatives such as pooled procurement coordinated ordering strategic demand forecasting and regulatory harmonization to more innovative credit enhancement mechanisms such as Volume Guarantees (VGs) Advance Market Commitments (AMCs) and working capital facilities. GMT collaborates closely with internal and external stakeholders to evaluate the public health impact of a proposed intervention and ensure alignment with current and future policy goals. GMT also works with CHAI Country teams to build stronger relationships with incountry Pharmaceutical manufacturers/distributors for improved access to health commodities.
For an example of the types of agreements CHAI helps negotiate please see below:
- Improving access to 3HP patientfriendly treatment to prevent tuberculosis
- Innovative agreement launches affordable optimal secondline HIV treatment in LMICs
- Breakthrough agreement will reduce costs and increase access to diagnostic technology for LMICs
- New highquality antiretroviral therapy to be launched in South Africa Kenya and over 90 LMICs at reduced price
- Supported South Africa DoH for an urgent requirement of Pretomanid by working with the registered manufacturer.
CHAI strives to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes fairness respect equity and dignity in the workplace. CHAI welcomes applications from all qualified individuals and encourages people from historically disadvantaged groups to apply. CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing an environment of fairness and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experiences backgrounds and culture.
Position Overview:
CHAI is seeking a highly motivated entrepreneurial individual with outstanding analytical capabilities problemsolving ability and communication skills. The Associate must be able to function independently and have a strong commitment to excellence.
The Associate will provide support across a number of marketshaping activities covering a range of key public health priorities including TB HIV NCDs nutrition and other pressing health concerns. The Associates primary responsibility will be to help develop maintain and implement CHAIs global supply side strategy for the key commodities support negotiations and collaborate with a range of internal and external stakeholders to design and implement interventions to ensure sufficient supply of affordable and highquality commodities in Southern Africa
The Associate will be required to build strong relationships with pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors in the region. They will be required to work closely with DoH to build forecast for key health commodities and facilitate uninterrupted supply.
CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness humility responsibility tenacity independence and work ethic. The position will require travel for supplier and partner meetings as well as to CHAI program countries. The Associate will be based in Pretoria South Africa and will report to Manager Global Markets Team (Regional Support).
Responsibilities
- Support the Global Market Team (GMT) in evaluating the potential for various market shaping interventions for key health commodities maintaining insight on local and regional dynamics
- Develop a detailed understanding and documentation of supplier dynamics for key health commodities globally and locally including market share of suppliers pricing offered by suppliers timelines for product development and manufacturing timelines for obtaining quality assurance status of incountry product registrations incountry dossier filing timelines and suppliers development and access strategies
- Disseminate information on market trends in the region to global team and country teams. Support global team and country teams in identifying pricing levers and utilizing market analysis to lead advocacy efforts incountry planning procurement and understanding incountry pricing benchmarks
- Liaise with the R&D team disease teams and country teams as well as relevant local stakeholders to develop the market analysis required to support negotiations with suppliers to expedite timetomarket reduce pricing and improve supply security for key health commodities
- Cultivate relationships with existing and potential suppliers of key quality assured health commodities in lowand middleincome markets. Build and maintain these relationships by providing valuable market insights and contacts offering targeted support and guidance to navigate regulatory and procurement processes at local and regional levels
- Participate in global and local disease team discussions/ meetings and help develop and implement the supplyside priorities of the disease teams.
- Provide support to teams local stakeholder engagements as required. Ongoing liaison with Access Teams to ensure alignment in communication and activities
- Support the disease teams in addressing any supplierrelated requirements and queries
- Provide inputs and support the disease teams in value for money analysis and periodic reporting on grant milestones
- Monitor supplier compliance with contracts global and domestic funding for product purchase and product uptake; present findings of analyses to a broad range of internal and external audiences including donors
- Prepare presentations reports and other analyses to inform global regional or local policy and increase the evidence base for highimpact interventions
- Present findings of analyses to internal and/ or external audiences in meetings and conferences
- Build a comprehensive database of Pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors in the region.
- Support DoH to develop forecast for key Health commodities.
- Any other activities as required by the Director Global Markets
Qualifications
- Ability to navigate complex governmental and organizational processes and favorably influence decisionmaking in a professional and collaborative manner;
- Advanced degree in Business Economics Engineering Public Health or other related disciplines with a minimum of 4 years of professional experience in a private or public sector setting with increasing levels of responsibility and experience
- Advanced problem solving analytical and quantitative skills including significant experience working in Excel (modelling) and PowerPoint and presenting findings and recommendations;
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a demonstrated ability to work independently on complex projects and solve challenging problems in a highpressure fastpaced environment
- Strategically minded able to think creatively around longterm program objectives and the detailed steps necessary to achieve these goals;
- Exceptional diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders in a challenging multicultural environment;
- Candidates with experience in management consulting investment banking supply chain and/or the pharmaceutical or medical device and diagnostics industry are preferred;
- Demonstrated ability to multitask with a strong commitment to excellence both internally and externally and with limited structural support;
- Demonstrated organizational and leadership skills;
- Willingness to travel
Attributes:
- Advanced problem solving and analytical skills including significant experience in modelling and building models (using Excel or other modelling tools)
- Proven experience in developing strong professional relationships with a range of key stakeholders in a challenging multicultural environment; experience in government stakeholder engagement/management is desirable
- Strategically minded able to think creatively around longterm program objectives and the detailed steps necessary to achieve these goals
- Entrepreneurial mindset and demonstrated ability to perform consistently at a high level in unstructured highpressure situations
- Exceptional diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders in a challenging multicultural environment
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to navigate complex governmental and organizational processes and favourably influence decision making in a professional and collaborative manner
- Willingness to travel as and when required
Required Experience:
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